Improvement in incense-burners



UNrrnn Sra'rns PATENT @Erica E. WARREN HASTINGS, OF BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN INCENSE-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,281, dated July 25,1871 antedated July 21, 1871..

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, E. WARREN HAsrrNcs, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvementsin Illuminators and Incense-Burners for Lodges, Theaters, and Societies,of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention relates to an illuminator so constructed thatthe illuminating coml pound or powder used can be ignitedinstantaneously simply by the use of a movable lamp, as hereafter willbe fully shown and described, the said illuminator also to serve thepurpose of an incense-burner when not used as an illuminator.

On the drawing, Figure l is a side view. Fig. 2 is a centrallongitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a plan of the inside of the urn asshown, with the covers b and c lifted off. Fig. 4is a plan ofthe coverb. Fig. 5 is a bottom view of Fig. l, and Fig. 6 is a side view of thelamp that is to be placed within the Aurn when used for incenseburning.

a, on Fig. 2, is an urn, the top of which is covered with two respectivecovers, b and c. The cover b has a spherical concavity, d, as shown onFigs. 2 and 4, which serves as a receptacle for the illuminating-powderor incense that lis used. In the spherical concavity d is xed a smallbracket, e, having a hole through its vertical part that serves as aguide for the fuse f. The fuse fis laid in the bottom of the sphericalconcavity, and covered with the illuminating compound in the usualmanner. The fuse is further put through the eye on the small bracket eand conducted downward through a small hole in the cover b on theright-hand side of the bracket e. The fuse is, still further down,guided by means of a small tube, g, iixed in a bearing in the body ofthe urn, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The fuse terminates a little belowthe lower end of this tube, as clearly shown' in Fig. 2. In the base ofthe urn is a lamp, It, suspended and movable in the following manner: Inthc lower part ofthe base, Fig. l, is made a slot, t', wherein plays theprojecting end ofthe slide Ak, as shown on Fig. 5. The said slide lc issupported by means of a pin or screw in its opposite end l in such amanner as to be moveable around this pin or screw as a fulcrum. Thecentral part of the slide k is made as a circular box, m, serving as asupport for the lamp h. The lamp h is placed in the position as shown onFig. 2 when not used; but when it is desired to ignite theilluminatingpowder in the concavity d I simply move the slide le bytouching the projecting' end 7a and moving it from the positionindicated by the line X to the position Y, when the burning lamp ILcomes directly under the lower end oi' the fuse j', which latter, beingthus ignited, conducts the lire, through the pipe g and bracket e, tothe illuminating compound in the concavity d. The cover c is lifted offwhen the urn is used for illuminating purposes. Vhen the urn is requiredfor incense-burning I take away the lamp h and place instead of this oneanother, n, shown on Fig. o'. The incense is then placed in the sameconcavity d of the cover b, The cover c is then put on, and the smokeand fumes will arise through the perforations p lo p p in the cover c.Both the body of the urn and the cover b have holes for the purpose ofadmitting air freely to and from the interior.

Having thus described the nature, construc-

